increase statutory and/or
judicial restrictions on the
war powers authority of the
president.
Traditionally, debaters
don’t sway much from the
resolution. They explain
the advantages and disadvantages and give their
own plans about to resolve
the topic.
Policy debaters, such as
Brooks and her partner,
Dan Stanfield, break away
from these norms.
Brooks, who has been a
social justice advocate for
over a decade, grew up in a
family that valued engagement in advocacy and the
political sphere.

When he’s not in classes or doing homework to
complete two degrees,
Andreas Schauer can be
seen zipping around on
his motorcycle.
The way he chooses to
get around is much like
the way he likes to live his
life: fast paced and with a
clear destination.
While the rigorous load
of completing a degree
with a single major is often enough to overwhelm
most students, Schauer
handles two majors and
much more with determination and resilience.
Schauer, a third-year
student, juggles a double
major in mechanical engineering and business at
Cal State Fullerton. He is
also the president of the
National Society of Black
Engineers (NSBE) club on
campus. Schauer manages his studies, club activities and intramural
sports, yet still finds time
to take his motorcycle for
a leisurely spin.
Born and raised in the
city of Vallejo in Northern California, Schauer
said being a double major pushes him to succeed. Out of all the people
he knows from his hometown, it has only produced well-known success stories for athletes,
but never academics or
businessmen.
“I will be the first person that is not an athlete,
if I make it to come back
and call Vallejo my hometown,” Schauer said. “It is
kind of a pushing factor to
know I’m from here, anybody can do it.
As a former high
school varsity athlete,
Schauer knows what it is
like to face fierce competition and perseverance
to be the best.
He said he hopes to
start an automobile company combining his expertise in engineering and
business after graduation
to design and market exotic cars in the vein of the
Fast and Furious films.
“Just being able to walk
around and be my own
person and know I have
this company’s legacy
and no one knows except
people in this industry,
that’s gratifying to me,”
Schauer said.
However, the path
Schauer has chosen for
his academic career is
not one he would recommend to everyone. The
only reason he is able to
manage his schedule is
because he knows what
he wants in life.
Schauer said if someone is taking on another
major to just try something new, then the stress
and workload are not
worth it.

SEE DEBATE, 6

SEE MAJOR, 6

Fullerton Mayor Doug
Chaffee laid out his goals
for the city in the coming
year in his first meeting
Tuesday during his first
town-hall style meeting
as mayor.
During
his
“Dialogue with Doug” community talk, Chaffee
touched on infrastructure maintenance and
other goals, but the issues surrounding Fullerton’s homeless population were addressed
repeatedly
throughout
the meeting.
There are an estimated
200 to 300 homeless people in Fullerton, said City
Manager Joe Felz. Chaffee plans to work with the
city of Anaheim and Orange County to build a
200-bed homeless shelter
there to serve the homeless population in both
cities. He said he hopes to
have the shelter plans finalized by the end of this
year, with construction
beginning in 2015.
Chaffee was one of
three
councilmembers
who, in June, rejected an
agreement between Orange County and Fullerton to build a similarly-sized shelter in town.
Janice Blair, a retiree who works with the
homeless through the
Fullerton Seventh Adventist Church, was worried
the mayor’s timeline may
not be fast enough.
“It sounds like if you’re
waiting until the end of
the year just to get a plan
in place to give the homeless shelter, it’s not really
very helpful to do what
we’re going to do now,”
Blair said.
Chaffee reached out to
the Anaheim City Council to start the planning
for the 200-bed homeless
shelter. That collaboration is important, he said,
to keep up with the constant movement of homeless individuals between
cities.
“One day … they may be
in Anaheim, the next day
they may be here,” Chaffee said. “It’s a common
problem and we must
solve it together.”
Fullerton
Armory
Shelter is open during
cold weather months to
provide services to the
homeless, and the shelter was recently approved
to continue past its original seasonal closure date,
Chaffee said.
In addition, the Armory is under the control
of the state and the National Guard, leaving the
city of Fullerton little leeway in running it.
SEE CHAFFEE, 3

Taking back the night
Students, faculty and survivors speak out against sexual assault

KYLE NAULT
Daily Titan

Candles lit up the night around
the Cal State Fullerton housing plaza
Wednesday as students and faculty
helped spread awareness for victims
of sexual assault.
“Take Back the Night,” featured
three keynote speakers, including a
sexual assault survivor, to further
educate students on the issue.
Roughly one in five college women are victims of attempted or

completed sexual assault during
their academic careers, according to
a 2012 report from the Center for Disease Control.
“The problem is that nobody wants
to think that this happens,” said
Dawn Foor, the supervisor for sexual assault prevention at Community
Service Programs (CSP), a nonprofit organization that helps victims of
crime and at-risk youth.
The WoMen’s Center and CSP offer
services for victims of sexual assault.
The WoMen’s Center provides service
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through

Friday, while CSP provides a 24-hour
hotline throughout the weekend.
“Cal State Fullerton has wonderful … services for any of our sexual
assault survivors,” said Susan Leavy,
who works in the Student Health and
Counseling Center.
The event was hosted by student
organization Consent is Key and
the WoMen’s and Adult Reentry
Centers.
For further help or information
about the programs available on
campus, contact the WoMen’s Center
at (657) 278-3928.

Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton

Debating in a new way
CSUF Speech and
Debate team is among
the top 25 schools
NICOLE WEAVER
Daily Titan

The days where students,
wearing formal attire,
stand at a podium and allow each other to calmly
discuss a particular issue
are numbered.
A new form of debating,
known as performance
debating, is becoming
more popular.
It’s a guerrilla style of debate that uses poetry readings, rap, foreign languages and stripping down to
one’s underwear in order to

garner a victory against top
dog schools, such as USC
and Harvard University.
“The Fullerton program
played a large part in sort
of shifting the debate community from very traditional norms of debate, and toward performative debate,”
said Sara Beth Brooks, a
human communications
major and member of the
Cal State Fullerton debate
team.
The debate team has a
long history of success in
the world of debate, ranking consistently among the
top 25 schools in the country out of hundreds of competing schools.
While there is not a
proper or correct way
to debate, performance

debate is taking an activity long-rooted in tradition
and turning it on its head.
Policy debate has a few
specific technical aspects
that are unique to that particular form of debating.
For example, many debaters argue at extremely high
speeds, usually speaking
300-350 words a minute.
A debate round consists of
eight speeches, two to each
person in the room.
Each competitor gets
nine minutes for a constructive speech, and six
minutes to rebut.
Both teams are given different sides of an issue to
argue. For example, this
year the topic is whether or not the U.S. government should substantially

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American studies professors Terri L. Snyder, Ph.D. (center), and Leila Zenderland, Ph.D., cut a cake as they celebrate the 34th annual
publication of American Papers during the launch of the current issue Tuesday.

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Members of the campus community gathered in University Hall to
launch American Papers,
a journal composed of articles written and edited
by American studies students and alumni.
“The papers really reflect the classes that
American studies faculty teach and, often, many
of our classes have a historical component,” said
faculty editorial advisor
Terri L. Snyder, Ph.D. “But
we want to teach students
to understand the past as
well as the present, and
how the past relates to the
present.”
Established in 1980, the
publication is now in its
34th year of production.

This year, the journal
highlights several different topics ranging from
research on women in the
Cold War to covenants
of the Ku Klux Klan in
Brea.
To be selected, students in American studies courses submitted
their papers in June to the
American Papers editorial
board and faculty advisor.
Together, they decided
what would be published
in the journal.
“(American studies are
like) history and sociology combined,” editorial board member Tatiana
Pedroza said. “It is really
interdisciplinary … and it
combined all my interests
together.”
The 2013-14 version of
the papers include over 14
articles that cover a wide
array of these interdisciplinary topics.
In his work titled
“Puttin’ ‘Em Back in the
Kitchen: The Creation,

Containment, Escape, and
Recapture of the Nuclear
Mom,” John Ciulik, a graduate student, examined
the position of women
in the Cold War and how
the popular culture of the
1950s tied into it.
Ciulik cites his mother
as the inspiration for his
work.
“My mother was born in
1939 and this is the period of time where she grew
up and kind of created
her identity,” he said. “My
mom had a pretty classic migration story and
I grew up as a product of
the extension of that migration story.”
Other authors focused
on the history of different subjects, including
racial relations in local
communities.
C.J. Adams, an alumnus who majored in history and American studies, wrote “The City of Oil,
Oranges, and Racism.”
His article sought to answer the question of how
Brea became dominated
by white residents, and
examined the racist past
that he believes still contributes to the hindrance
of the racial and cultural
diversity of the city.
“I was trying to find
something about the city
that I grew up in,” Adams
said. “I think it’s significant because a lot of people that live in Brea or surrounding
communities

don’t know the history of
where they live.”
He said he was shocked
to learn about the “sundown ordinance” that
was in effect in the city
during the 1920s and
1930s, which meant that
no black people or people
of color could be in town
past 6 p.m.
He also retold the tale of
Neff Cox, who he said was
the only black person in
town for almost 50 years.
In addition to Ciulik’s
and Adams’ findings, the
publication offers topics that embody the vast
range of subjects that
American studies scholars research. The papers
include pieces on War
on Terror films and even
how Disneyland functions as a disciplinary
environment.
Journal editors hope
to expand the publication and bring it into the
digital age in the coming
years.
“We hope to move in
the future to an online
journal, and we’ve been
talking about making it
not just a journal of papers from American studies classes, but inviting
undergraduates
from
across the country to submit,” Snyder said.
The journal is available
online and a print copy
can be picked up in the
American studies department office.

ELEONOR SEGURA / Daily Titan
The latest edition of American Papers includes over 14 articles
from American studies students and alumni.

CSUF Sistertalk, a student organization at Cal
State Fullerton, will host
“Thrones of Black Kings”
Thursday in the Titan
Student Union to celebrate male leaders and
role models in the black
community.
Roxana Rivera, a broadcast journalism major
and the president of CSUF
Sistertalk, invites everyone, regardless of race
or nationality, to join the
“Thrones of Black Kings”
event on campus to learn
more about black history during Black History
Month.
“It can be a learning process for (people outside
the black community) because we do have facts
about African-Americans
that people may not know,”
Rivera said.
“Thrones of Black Kings”

will help spread this message of unity and support and will be an event
geared towards black students to show appreciation
and love to those who may
have been victims of racism and discrimination.
Gary Jones, a black
21-year-old business major
at Pasadena City College,
said racism is something he has experienced
firsthand.
“Still to this day, people lock their doors when
I walk by their cars and I
don’t understand why, you
know?” Jones said. “When
I was walking in Glendale,
some lady grabbed her
purse like I was going to
take it.”
CSUF Sistertalk group
is founded on preventing
this type of racial profiling. The group works on
campus to provide support for students dealing
with racism or negative
stereotyping. Its “Thrones
of Black Kings” event reflects their stance that
many of the black male
students on campus are
underappreciated.
“This event is specifically

for the men on campus and
in the surrounding areas,”
said 21-year-old sociology major Alysa Monet,
who is a public relations
representative for CSUF
Sistertalk. “Since we are
an organization that is targeted to women of color,
we reached out primarily to the men of color on
campus.”
Monet said the main objective of the group is to
inform the men in attendance that they are not
only appreciated, but also
have a support group in
CSUF Sistertalk.
“We also hope for our
men to feel empowered
when they leave; empowered to make a difference
in the lives of others, empowered to improve themselves,” she said.
Monet said she also believes there is a huge identity crisis among black
students at Cal State
Fullerton.

“The black or AfricanAmerican population is
around 2 percent,” she
said. “There’s a huge desire to figure out what our
identity is. And though
I don’t want to generalize or speak for the entire
black or African-American
population, I believe it’s
because we don’t tend to
see much of ourself in our
classmates; our experiences aren’t generally the
same as our peers and that
can make it hard to find
relatable situations.”
This struggle to find an
identity in the classroom
allows CSUF Sistertalk to
build a close-knit group in
which black students can
come together and feel a
part of something meaningful, she said.
The event has reached
its maximum capacity, but
potential attendees may
email sistertalk12@gmail.
com to see if any additional spots are open.

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Mayor pushes for new shelter

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

THURSDAY

DTBRIEFS
Controversial
AZ bill vetoed
by governor
Arizona Gov. Jan
Brewer vetoed a state
bill that would have
given businesses the
right to deny service
to gay and lesbian customers due to religious
reasons Wednesday,
according to CNN.
Senate Bill 1062 was
subject to a slew of protests after it passed the
state legislature last
Thursday. Major corporations such as Apple,
AT&T and American
Airlines, as well as the
Arizona Super Bowl
Host Committee, opposed the statute.
“Religious
liberty is a core American
and Arizona value,
so is non-discrimination,” Brewer said in a
statement.
Sen. John McCain
and Sen. Jeff Flake and
former
Republican
presidential candidate
Mitt Romney supported the veto.
- SASHA BELANI

Border patrol
seizes meth
shipment
United States Border
Patrol agents confiscated 12.24 pounds of
m e t h a mp he t a m i ne
Tuesday,
according
to the Orange County
Register.
Officials estimate
the street value of the
shipment to be about
$122,400.
Agents stopped two
men, a United States
citizen and a Mexican
national, driving in a
Ford F-150 pickup at
around 6 p.m. at the
5 Freeway checkpoint
near San Clemente.
The drugs were found
in various parts of the
pickup with the assistance of a police canine and X-ray detection machine.
The bundles of
m e t h a mp he t a m i ne
and the unidentified suspects were
turned over to the
Drug
Enforcement
Administration.
- SASHA BELANI

Attack kills
29 at college
in Nigeria
Twenty-nine
students were killed in
an attack Tuesday at
a college in Buni Yadi,
a city in northwestern
Nigeria, according to
CNN.
Student
bodies
were found burned
beyond recognition,
and buildings were
torched during the
attack.
The attackers escaped,
but
the
Nigerian military suspect the Islamist extremist group Boko
Haram to be responsible for the violence.
Boko Haram, which
translates to “Western
education is a sin,”
has claimed more
than 3,000 lives since
2009.
The United States
State
Department
has considered Boko
Haram to be a terrorist organization since
November 2013.

CHAFFEE
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The issue is further complicated by the fact that,
while Fullerton has an anti-camping law, there are
few alternatives for homeless individuals, making it
difficult for police to enforce that particular ordinance, Chaffee said.
“That’s one of the benefits of when we do get a
shelter, we’ll have a place
to have them go to, and if
they don’t do it then we’ll
start enforcing the anti-camping law more seriously,” he said.
Chaffee
said
the
Fullerton
Police
Department has been
equipped with more training on how to interact
with the homeless.
“The police department
is totally different than
it was two years ago,” he
said. “We now have homeless liaison officers. In
fact, every sworn officer
must go through homeless
training on how to deal
with homeless people.”
Fullerton’s police department has started
training other cities in
homeless liaison programs, Chaffee said, including 19 cities that took
advantage of the training
in recent weeks.
Homeless
individuals
with drug abuse or mental
health issues require other services than simply a
roof and a bed to sleep in,
Chaffee said.
He said interfaith organizations like Pathways
of Hope can also be relied
upon to aid the homeless,
even when the city lacks

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the facilities or funding.
“There are all kinds of
different things that you
need to address the homeless situation,” Chaffee
said. “That’s a transitional
phase … once (the homeless) go through the six
months at Pathways about
… three quarters don’t
have to return.”
Pathways is also planning to expand, Chaffee
said, adding on eight additional units specifically to help homeless families. The program also
provides budget training
and help with other issues within the family, he
said.
Chaffee said the planning for Fullerton’s homeless shelter will take time
to be finalized, but the
goal is a long-term solution to the issues raised
by the residents at the
meeting.
“That’s why creating a
shelter is very important,”
he said. “It won’t happen
overnight, but if we can
finally come together on
the site and a design with
the right services in there,
then there’s hope for the
future.”
Chaffee said he hopes
to have the planning portion of the shelter done by
the end of this year, and to
have construction begin
in 2015.
Dialogue with Doug
meetings continue a tradition began by his predecessors, who gave their
events different names.
The town-hall meetings
are currently scheduled
for the fourth Tuesday of
each month at locations
across the city.

MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan
Audience members listen to Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee explain his proposed homeless shelter
during his first “Dialogue with Doug” community talk in the Fullerton Community Center Tuesday.

MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan
Fullerton Mayor Doug Chaffee (center) speaks to city residents concerning homeless shelters and
other concerns. He is joined by his wife, Paulette (right), and City Manager Joe Felz (left).

DASH Literary Journal,
a student-run publication based in the English
Department, is now accepting submissions for its
2014 issue.
The journal includes
many different types of
literary works, including
poetry, fiction and nonfiction stories and literary
criticism.
The co-editor of DASH,
Stephanie Flint, a 22-yearold English graduate student, has been working on
DASH for the past three
years. She said the process
has helped her gain knowledge of the career she
hopes to enter.
“As a creative writer
myself, this experience
has really helped me gain
valuable perspective on
how the publishing world
works, and how to best
present myself and my
work to the public,” Flint
said.

Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton
DASH Literary Journal publishes only about 1 to 3 percent of
submissions it receives, according to Steve Westbrook, Ph.D.

The DASH staff works in
all areas of the publishing
world, Flint said. “The students are broken up into
editorial committees and
business committees,” she
said. “We split the time between the two reviewing
submissions and also tending to the business side of
journal production.”
Sierra Tavasolian, 26, a
graduate student studying English, is a member of the CSUF Creative
Writing Club and said her

involvement with DASH is
helping her make relationships with people who are
already working in writing
careers.
“There are bi-monthly creative writing workshops, and there are bigger
events during the semester. In the fall, we have an
industry night, where people from a bunch of different writing-based jobs
come and talk. We’ve had
published novelists, bigname comedians and even

TV writers,” Tavasolian
said. “It’s a great chance
to hear about writing
as a career, and to ask
questions.”
Getting involved with
DASH and the CSUF
Creative Writing Club will
give aspiring writers access to a great community of students with similar
goals, Tavasolian said.
After receiving submissions, all names are covered and the submissions
are blindly reviewed by the
DASH staff.
Steve Westbrook, Ph.D.,
an associate professor of
English and faculty advisor of DASH, said only 1 to
3 percent of submissions
received actually make it
into the journal.
It may be difficult to get
published in the journal,
but students involved are
confident that working
on DASH is a rewarding
opportunity.
For those hoping to be
published in DASH, they
must follow strict submission guidelines.
Students may send in
up to five poems, and they
must be 33 lines or fewer in
length. Aside from poetry,
you may only submit one

submission per category.
Fiction, nonfiction and
works of criticism must be
2,014 words or fewer; art
must be sent in as a TIF or
JPEG file, and hybrid works
are welcome.
Submissions must not
have been previously published elsewhere.
The deadline for all submissions is March 1.
For those who hope to
be published in DASH but
miss the deadline, there
will be a “Dash-off,” which
is a flash fiction contest,
held on March 2.
There will also be a
DASH fundraiser held in
the Titan Student Union
Underground on April 8
that will feature a superhero-themed competition,
and the winner will be
published in DASH.
DASH is run through
a graduate-level course,
English 515, and the first
issue was published in
2008. Since then, a new
issue has been released
annually.
The 2014 issue of DASH
will be released on May
16.
For more information,
visit DashLiteraryJournal.
com.

- SASHA BELANI

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THURSDAY

Arizona bill rightfully vetoed
KALEY
WILLIAMS
Daily Titan

Photo illustration by
AMANDA SHARP & ELEONOR SEGURA/ Daily Titan
People who sign up on the website Upstart.com sign away a
percentage of their wages for the next five or ten years.

Upstart not a good choice
ERIC
GANDARILLA
Daily Titan

Losing up to 7 percent
of wages for 10 years is
not a good investment
The main goal of attending college is graduating and
landing a well-paying job.
During their time in college, students sometimes
complain about their classwork and just how terrible
having to get up early is. But
during the last semester of
college, all of a sudden none
of that sounds as terrible as
it once did.
Rose colored glasses will
tint the last four, or for some
five, years in a pink hue.
College is over, degree is
in hand, now it is real. It is
time to find a job.
Unfortunately,
accomplishing that is not an easy
task.
With mixed opportunities
after graduation, students
may begin to gravitate toward alternative post graduation options.
One of these possible options is the website Upstart.
com.
Upstart allows anyone to
post a profile of themselves
which lists a person’s education, area of study, goals and
how much money is needed
to accomplish those goals.
From there, investors can
choose who looks the most
promising and invest in
them.
In return for the money received upfront, the
Upstart user will need to
agree to give back a certain percentage of his or her
earnings for the next five to
10 years. This percentage
can range from as little as 1
percent all the way up to 7
percent.
While this website is not
exclusive to college students, it is an attractive
choice for students wanting
to escape the monthly payment cycle of their student
loans.
But there are too many
uncertainties and risks involved in doing something
like this.
This is especially true
considering the last couple
years have shared the common theme of low unemployment rates.
In 2008, the unemployment rate began to rise, and
in October 2009, the unemployment rate peaked at
10.1 percent, according to

MacroTrends.net
Fortunately,
unemployment rates have dropped
since then, but the job market
is still a tough place to enter.
Certain majors yield better employment opportunities than others. People who
majored in subjects such as
elementary education have a
low 5 percent unemployment
rate, while those who majored in architecture have an
unemployment rate of 12.8
percent.
In 2013, the overall unemployment rate of college
graduates was 7.9 percent,
according to the Huffington
Post.
Students who graduate
with less sought after degrees end up having to take
up jobs that don’t actually require college degrees.
They are indeed finding
a job after college but at a
job that pays them the same
amount a non-graduate
would get.
This makes it easier to
understand why a student
would consider Upstart.
com. But again, that decision
would be ill advised.
Most Upstart profiles have
some sort of business proposal they use to entice possible investors. The business
proposal might seem sound,
but whether or not it will actually succeed is unknown.
Regardless of that, Upstart
users are agreeing to give investors a percentage of their
earnings for up to a decade;
that sounds like a problem
waiting to happen.
If the business funded
by Upstart failed then how
would the person be able to
afford giving back a percentage of their meager earnings? The answer is simple:
they wouldn’t.
The principles behind
Upstart and taking out a normal loan are relatively the
same: receive money from
a source and agree to pay it
back. It’s the method of paying
it back that begins to differ.
In the case of Upstart, if
a person fails then giving
a percentage of little to no
earnings will put the person in financial problems.
If the person is successful then they will have to
give away more money to
investors.
This 1 to 7 percent will be
extra money on top of the
taxes and other expenses
they will be paying.
However difficult it may be
for a college graduates with
bachelor’s degree to find a
job, there are better options
available to them than signing 10 years of their paychecks away.

Gov. Jan Brewer has
made the right decision
in vetoing anti gay bill
One of the founding notions of this nation is that
all men are created equal.
There has been a lot of
progress to lessen discrimination against others but
it seems there is still a long
way to go.
An Arizona bill has been
vetoed that would have allowed shop owners to deny
service to gay and lesbian
customers as long as they
denied them strictly based
on religious beliefs.
Supporters of the bill, SB
1062, said the law would
make it so that shop owners do not have to serve
customers if they should
offend
their
religious
beliefs.
How can serving customers who have different
beliefs be against someone’s religion? Many religions have a saying similar
to “love the sinner, hate the
sin.”
Where was that compassion when the bill was being passed?
If this bill had been
passed, how far would the
discrimination go? If shop
owners could deny gay and
lesbian customers based
on their religious beliefs,
could they also turn away
unwed mothers? Could
they deny transsexuals or
people of other religions?
Where is the line
drawn?
Many businesses already
harbor signs that say, “We
reserve the right to refuse
service to anyone.” This
law would have simply allowed shop owners to turn
away customers whose beliefs they didn’t agree with,
without fear of lawsuit or
retaliation.
This law would have been
completely
discriminating. Allowing shop owners
to deny customers based
on their sexual orientations is completely ridiculous, and trying to claim
this would allow more religious freedom is extremely

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If SB 1062 had passed, Arizona businesses would have been able to discriminate against gay customers.

far-fetched.
The First Amendment
gives everyone the right
to freedom of religion.
Individuals should be able
to have their own beliefs
without shunning others.
Serving gay and lesbian
customers does not belittle a shop owner’s beliefs.
It also does not express
that the shop owner agrees
with the customer’s beliefs
or lifestyle. The only thing
it expresses is that the
shop owner is a decent human being.
This bill being vetoed is
a huge step forward in the

fight for equality. People
are entitled to their own
beliefs and lifestyles. There
are already so many cases
of hate and self-harm when
looking at kids and teens
who are afraid to come out
as gay or lesbian.
This law would have just
confirmed the perception
that there is something
wrong with homosexuality. Everyone is entitled to
love and happiness, and
people should not be discriminated against just
because others don’t agree
with the sex of the person
they love.

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Gov. Jan Brewer made
the correct choice in vetoing the bill. This bill may
have intended to protect
freedom of religion, but
instead it would have simply allowed discrimination
and hate. It would begin
with gay and lesbians and
it would only grow from
there.
Gays and lesbians are
people just like anyone
else, and they deserve the
same rights and respects.
The long adopted belief
of all men being created
equal is a belief that needs
to be honored.

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Arm the Animals is a clothing brand that sells T-shirts and sweaters featuring animals fully armed with
weapons, including machine guns and grenades. These items can be bought on the company’s website.

Clothing line aims to
help rescue animals
The company
partners with over
30 animal shelters
ASHLEN DOMINGUEZ
Daily Titan

When Matt Heinmeyer’s
older sister suddenly died
from a heart condition in
2008, he knew he had to
do something to honor
her memory.
Knowing his sister’s
love for animals, Heinmeyer began to create a
memorial in her name
that would continue the
work she did for them.
Unexpectedly,
the
phrase “Arm the Animals”
came to him.
With
encouragement
from friends, Heinmeyer
drew up shirts with the
phrase and a few designs.
Eventually, Arm the Animals (ATA) became a
clothing line.
Most of the shirts were
created in a tongue-incheek fashion, showing images of cuddly creatures
fully armed with weapons,
including grenades and
machine guns.
The shirts were a hit
and quickly began to sell.
Heinmeyer started the company with his friend and
roommate, Danian Rios.
The clothing brand
project began in the pair’s
apartment. Much like
their logo of a gorilla carrying an AK-47, the two
were armed and ready for
the tasks ahead.
The company used its
growing online presence
and social media to create
a buzz for the cause. They
built a reputation and
business from this.
Three years later, the
company is still growing.
Heinmeyer and Rios have
stayed true to their business model and charitable
foundation by donating a
portion of the proceeds to
animal shelters.
ATA has a long-standing partnership with animal rescue organizations,
including the Fullerton-based Barks of Love
and Strangest Angels, and
makes steady donations
to them. As a small business, the owners of the
company felt connected
to the mom-and-pop style
rescues and has since
partnered with more than
30 rescues on a separate
monthly basis.
The clothing items from
ATA are inspired by other
animal lovers.
The pair reached out to
one of their followers on
Instagram who lost her
beloved rabbit. ATA created a “Rambo Rabbit”
T-shirt with her pet in
mind, and a portion of the
proceeds from that shirt
went to Rabbit.org.
These interactions are
what the company looks

for, and Heinmeyer is glad
to have the Internet as
their main platform.
“People engage with us
mostly through Instagram,
Facebook and our website
so that’s kind of a model
that’s worked for us really
well,” Heinmeyer said.
ATA has caught the attention of multiple celebrities, including Ashley
Greene, John Travolta and
Shannon Elizabeth.
Cal State Fullerton
alumnus Aaron Lanahan,
an ATA intern, said he has
been inspired by the small
company.
“I love the fact that
they’re a charitable clothing company and they’re
not doing something for
just themselves,” Lanahan said. “They’re actually reaching out to other
people.”
The idea behind ATA
is something people seem
to be receiving well. Its
website has had positive
feedback, and people are
asking for more original
designs.
Alison Nullmeyer, an
Orange County resident
and frequent shopper, was
not put off by the idea of
animals with weapons.
“I think that’s awesome.

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I think it’s a really great
moniker,” Nullmeyer said.
“If I’m going to spend
money frivolously, at least
it’s going towards someone who needs it.”
The company has some
new changes planned in
the upcoming year. Heinmeyer said he is expecting
to launch a new project,
Arm the Animals University Affiliate Program
(ATA-U), in the next few
weeks on his company’s
website. ATA-U will reach
out to university students
who are interested in being brand ambassadors
for the company.
“We’re basically trying to find university students who are down with
the cause that they think
what we’re doing is cool,”
Heinmeyer said.
Students will have the
opportunity to earn free
gear while they help promote the business around
campuses everywhere.
ATA is also planning
appearances at a number of big Southern California events, including
Comic-Con, WonderCon,
Unique LA and Fiesta
Hermosa.
For more information,
visit ArmTheAnimals.com.

Getting into graduate
school can be a tiresome
struggle for anyone. There
are SATs to take, applications to fill out and essays
to write.
Some Hispanic students face many challenges while attempting to get
into a graduate school due
to financial and cultural
circumstances.
However, the Enhancing
Postbaccalaureate Opportunities at Cal State Fullerton for Hispanic Students
(EPOCHS) program aims
to lessen the fear of possibly not being accepted into
graduate school. Although
the program helps many
Hispanic students, every
ethnicity is allowed to benefit from its resources.
The EPOCHS program
began in 2010 and provides
academic support, tutoring, faculty-staff mentoring and making a positive
change in the lives of Hispanic graduate students.
Students involved in EPOCHS benefit from orientation programs, a student
newsletter, workshops and
research funding. Funding has been awarded to
many students since EPOCHS started.
EPOCHS received a fiveyear federal grant that Hispanic-serving institutions
and
postbaccalaureate

programs can apply for.
The money the program
receives is earmarked
for “improving Hispanic achievement in graduate school,” said Katherine
Powers, the graduate studies director and one of the
creators of EPOCHS.
In order to help the Hispanic community, the
idea was to fashion the
framework of the services,
such as orientation, mentors and tutors to specifically meet their needs,
Powers said.
However, the services offered through EPOCHS are
available for any graduate
student that wishes to take
advantage of them.
Powers said the services
provided by EPOCHS are
available to students because of the grant.
When EPOCHS applied
for the grant in fall 2010,
15 percent of graduate
students were Hispanic,
and now 21 percent are
hispanic, she said.
“That’s a huge disparity,
and there’s no reason for
that, except that Hispanic students weren’t going
to graduate school here,”
Powers said. “When you
look back at all the data I
could look at, like historical enrollment patterns,
I can only think that the
grant had the strongest effect on that number. We’re
very proud of that.”
Graduate school can be
a culture shock for many
students.
However, the mentors at
EPOCHS are there for students to help them through
the transition and orient

the students with graduate
coursework.
“From undergrad to
graduate, it’s a different life. Different responsibilities, different expectations,” said Cristy
Sotomayor, a graduate assistant in the program who
is also working on her master’s degree in psychology.
Sotomayor works in the
Graduate Studies Office
as a researcher, which
means her work serves the
grant’s targets.
She said the program has
a graduate panel and mentoring program with workshops and a writing bootcamp, as well as support
groups for those involved.
The program contains
all faculty-staff who are assigned graduate students
to mentor.
In addition to the enriching services offered by
EPOCHS, the grant also
funds an admissions coordinator who works specifically with graduate students. Up until three years
ago, that position was
non-existent.
“That was part of the
idea to get somebody, because all of the admissions
personnel just worked for
all students, undergrad
… there just seemed to be
some weaknesses in the
admissions processing for
graduate students, that I
had noticed,” Powers said.
The grant has allowed
EPOCHS to build the proper program needed to enrich the lives of graduate
students at Cal State Fullerton and to encourage
them to reach out for help.

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As an adult, she found
that advocating for social justice was an intuitive way to effectuate
real change in the world
around her.
“The types of arguments
that Dan and I debate
about have to do with issues of social justice. We
approach the topic from a
lens of social justice. What
do war powers look like
through a social justice
lens? How do we engage
with war powers and also
talk about issues of structural violence or issues
of systemic oppression?”
Brooks said.
When Brooks and her
partner debate the resolution for presidential
war powers, they present
their arguments in poetry as a form of revolutionary politics. Their nine
minute slam poem, titled
“The Wars at Home,” is
their critique of the topic, which is that the topic only asks to shift who

does war, not actually
asking to do less war.
“It’s interesting to see
how everybody has their
own literature base that
they’re pulling from,” said
Jeanette Rodriguez, a policy debate coach who is getting her master’s degree in
communications.
The team also engages in public forum debate,
which deals with hot button issues and current
events. The topics for those
debates change each tournament and give debaters
more versatility by thinking critically about a wide
range of issues.
For Elena Caceres, public
forum debate has allowed
their education to flourish
in a way that wouldn’t have
been possible otherwise.
“Becoming more aware
of the world around you …
permeates into your everyday life,” Caceres said.
The debate team has
completed several tournaments in the past few
months and is finishing its
season in March with a trip
to nationals in Indiana.

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NSBE club adviser, Elizabeth
Gomez, said Schauer’s journey from
his first year until now has been a
long one. The once-shy freshman
came out of his shell over the years,
and developed a desire to be more
involved in his school as he got to
know his club advisors and fellow
classmates.
“His attitude changed in terms of
wanting to get involved and to have a
better connection with the university
and with the College of Engineering,”
Gomez said.

Schauer said he has a survival mentality, where failure is not an option.
“Whenever I put my name on something, it is going to be a success,” he
said. “I’m not going to let anything
with my name on it fail. I kind of take
that into everything I am doing.”
Sergio Guerra, the coordinator for
the Center for Academic Support in
Engineering and Computer Science
and also a NSBE club adviser, said
he has encountered several double
majors within the last year in the
Engineering Department.
However, Schauer is somewhat
unique in that he is particularly

active in juggling extracurriculars
as well.
Guerra said Schauer is involved in
so many activities because he has the
heart to help others and is helping
himself in the process.
At the end of the day, Schauer combines hard work with determination
to make sure he does not just dream
about his goals, he achieves them.
“When people ask me what my
dreams are, I say ‘I don’t have
dreams, I have goals,’” Schauer said.
“Dreams are something that are unattainable and goals are something
you can always reach.”

MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan
Andreas Schauer is majoring in mechanical engineering and business at Cal State Fullerton and wants to design exotic cars after graduation.

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Titans to face ex-coach
CSUF baseball set to
clash with the Ducks,
led by George Horton
JOSEPH ANDERSON
Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton
baseball team will look to
right the ship this weekend
when it visits the No. 9 team
in the nation, the Oregon
Ducks.
The Titans will face
Oregon Head Coach George
Horton. CSUF Head Coach
Rick Vanderhook is looking
to prevail over his mentor
again. Horton led Fullerton
to a College World Series title in 2004. He is currently
in his sixth season with the
Ducks.
CSUF has stumbled out
of the gate this season with
a mediocre 4-3 record after
being ranked No. 1 nationally in multiple preseason
polls. Having faced no nationally ranked programs
so far this season, the trip
to Eugene will serve as a
pivotal measuring point
for the underachieving
Titans.
Defense will be a main
point of emphasis for the
Titans, as they have recorded errors in each of their
games since the season
opener against Washington
State. The Titans have made
multiple errors in four
games already this season, after having the 28th
ranked defense in the country last season, finishing
2013 with a .975 fielding
percentage as a team.
Fullerton’s offense has
also been inconsistent so
far in 2014, with a measly

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Sophomore left fielder Tyler Stieb takes a hack at a pitch from a San Francisco Dons pitcher. Stieb
has a .182 batting average this season and has been hit by four pitches and has stolen three bases.

.394 team slugging percentage. CSUF has shown
flashes of brilliance at the
plate this year, headlined
by junior outfielder Clay
Williamson and senior outfielder Greg Velazquez. They
have each turned in a game
with four runs batted in.
As impressive as those
performances were, the
Titans have struck out 59
times in their seven games,
which adds up to more than
eight punchouts per nine
innings.
The
Oregon
Ducks’

pitching staff has posted an
impressive 2.34 earned run
average in the early going
of the 2014 season, which
has contributed to their undefeated 8-0 record so far.
Inability to make contact
could hurt the Titan hitters against an Oregon staff
that averages almost nine
strikeouts per game.
As impressive as Oregon’s
pitching has been so far,
that might be one area
where CSUF can best its opponents from the Pac-12.
The Titans will send out

two experienced sophomores in Thomas Eshelman
and Justin Garza, both
named
freshman
AllAmericans in 2013, to start
the series.
Game three against the
Ducks will feature junior
Grahamm Wiest, who has
been the most consistent of
the CSUF staff so far. In his
last outing, Wiest pitched
a complete game, allowing just one unearned run
to the San Francisco Dons
while striking out 10 batters. This earned him his

first win of the year.
As tough as the Titans’
pitching staff is, Oregon’s
offense is equally as impressive. With their .281 team
batting average, the Ducks
are excellent at putting the
ball in play, which doesn’t
bode well for the reeling
Titans defense. Two hitters
have impressed in particular, as junior Kyle Garlick
and freshman A.J. Balta are
both hitting at least .400 in
the early going.
In last season’s series at
Goodwin Field, CSUF bested Oregon, winning the series two games to one. Both
Eshelman and Garza were
able to stifle their guests
from Eugene last year,
and the Titans will hope
for more of the same this
weekend.
However, 2014 is a new
season, and the Ducks’
home-field advantage could
make for a difficult weekend trip for Fullerton.
This is also an interesting
test for the Titans because
they are looking to re-establish themselves as one
of the premier teams in the
country after a disappointing start. Defeating a top-10
team on the road would go
a long way toward building
up the respect CSUF had
originally garnered in the
preseason.
The season is still young
for Cal State Fullerton, but
it has many facets of its
game that must be shored
up before Big West play begins if they hope to bring
another conference title
back to Fullerton.
For more information on
the CSUF baseball team
and all Titan Athletics, go
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DTBRIEFS
CSUF tennis
earns sweep
over Tritons
The
Cal
State
Fullerton women’s tennis team swept the
UC San Diego Tritons
7-0 on Wednesday, improving its record to
3-7.
Freshman Camille
De Leon and senior
Morgan
McIntosh
started out the doubles
competition by winning 8-3. Junior Kalika
Slevcove and freshman Alexis Valenzuela
sealed the doubles
point by winning 8-2.
Valenzuela
(7-3)
set the tone in singles matches by winning her sixth consecutive match 6-4, 6-2.
McIntosh (4-6) won 6-1,
6-2 in the No. 2 spot. De
Leon (8-2) won her fifth
consecutive match 6-4,
6-0 in the No. 3 spot.
Slevcove,
junior
Jessica Pepa and junior
Megan Sandford won
the remaining singles
matches for CSUF.
- IAN O’BRIEN

Men’s golf
place fifth at
Jones Invite
After
finishing
in fourth place on
Monday, the Cal
State Fullerton men’s
golf team finished
in fifth place at the
Jones Invitational on
Tuesday.
CSUF shot +15
(600) on the first day,
and they finished
the tournament with
a +42 (906). Junior
Ryan Terrault led the
Titans in the two-day
invitational, shooting a +6 (222) and
finished sixth in the
tournament.
San Diego State,
who is ranked No.
50 in the country by
GolfStat.com,
finished the tournament in first place
with a score of +17
(881). USC, University
of San Diego and
Brigham
Young
University
rounded out the top four,
respectively.
- IAN O’BRIEN

Pachyderm
Challenge, a
new tradition
During
halftime
of the men’s basketball game Thursday,
Titan fans will be treated to the inaugural
Pachyderm Challenge.
The
Pachyderm
Challenge will be an
eight minute basketball match between
Cal State Fullerton
students and faculty.
Associated
Students Inc. President
Rohullah Latif will
captain the student
team. Vice President
for
Information
Technology
Amir
Dabirian will lead the
faculty team.
If the game ends in a
tie, the teams will have
a shootout to determine the winner of the
inaugural trophy.
The athletic department hopes to make the
Pachyderm Challenge
a long-standing CSUF
tradition for many
years to come.
- TAMEEM SERAJ